Haiku Printing

Before I go ahead and spend $200 or $300 on Epson ink cartridges I would like to have at least some assurance that one of the developers will actually take the time to look into Haiku printing issues within a reasonable time frame of being reported - not months or years.
Gutenprint mainly supports Epson and Canon printers, and since they are readily available and fairly inexpensive, I am willing to purchase a Haiku supported Canon printer as well for testing.
Is there any possibility that somebody can look into getting the BeatWare Write word processor working in Haiku (ticket #9638)?